Eh, I've seen Vietnam vets post on other message boards who hate the M16 series and constantly complain that our troops today are still using it. And when anyone argues with them, they do the same thing - they say "I'm a vet and you ain't, so shaddup! I know what I'm talking about! (*Insert insult about opponent's age here*)"
It seems understandable that they have the attitude, given the early issues. But what bothers me is that they don't seem to understand that the M16s we use today are, at least, rather different than the ones they used in 'Nam. I don't have much experience with ARs (barely any, in fact), but I still feel that their failure to understand the difference between an XM16E1 and, say, an M4A1 makes them hard to take seriously.
Last edited by MT2008; 05-18-2009 at 11:03 PM.
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